Talk:Shakespeare authorship question/sandbox draft2

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Common arguments for alternative authors

While a multitude of arguments exist to support the various alternative authors, some of them see common to most of them.

=Biographical coincidences with the works=

Travels match play settings, events in plays can be connected to some event in proposed author's life

Oxford, Neville, Marlowe (sonnets)

=Verbal parallels=

parallels between texts in the canon, and writings by other authors—

Bacon, Oxford, Marlowe, Neville

=Ciphers and cryptograms=

hidden in the works or the funerary monument—all of them

=Family connections=

Oxford, Derby, Neville

=Theatre connections=

Bacon, Oxford, Marlowe, Neville, Derby

=Reason for secrecy=